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=='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | =='''Upcoming Speakers'''== | ||
==== | ====Thursday, 5 March 2020: Social Media and Well-Being: Moving Beyond "Active" vs "Passive" Activities, with Nicole Ellison==== | ||
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Nicole B. Ellison is the Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Communication Theory and Research in 1999 from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. Nicole's research has explored social and interpersonal aspects of online technologies and computer-mediated communication, including research on self-presentational strategies used by online dating participants; the role of social media in reshaping college access patterns for low-income and first-generation college students; and the ways in which users employ the communication affordances of Facebook to receive and give social and informational support to members of their network. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Academies of Science. This year she is at Stanford University as a recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where she is currently writing a book on social media and well-being. | Nicole B. Ellison is the Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Communication Theory and Research in 1999 from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. Nicole's research has explored social and interpersonal aspects of online technologies and computer-mediated communication, including research on self-presentational strategies used by online dating participants; the role of social media in reshaping college access patterns for low-income and first-generation college students; and the ways in which users employ the communication affordances of Facebook to receive and give social and informational support to members of their network. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Academies of Science. This year she is at Stanford University as a recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where she is currently writing a book on social media and well-being. | ||
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* Host: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish/ Jofish] | |||
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** During the event join us on Slack #speaker-series | |||
* Hashtag: #MozillaSpeakers | |||
====Thursday, 5 March 2020: Dark Elegies: The Choreographics of Surveillance and National Defense, with Sydney Skybetter, Brown University==== | |||
* Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 8:00pm UT | |||
* Location: Mozilla Mountain View + broadcast on [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-02-21 Airmo], on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAeRaJoHLc Youtube], and in [https://hubs.mozilla.com/22BFkVw Hubs in VR] and archived for later watching on Airmo and Youtube. | |||
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Choreographer and Brown University Professor, Sydney Skybetter, will present his research on the intersections of gesture, robotics, dance history and homeland security. With case studies of the Snowden leaks, military surveillance drones, the film Minority Report, and early motion capture research conducted with choreographers Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones, Skybetter will sketch a vision of the evolution of contemporary surveillance technologies undergirded by dance theory and choreographic method. | |||
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Hailed by Dance Magazine as “One of the most influential people in dance today,” his work has been performed at such venues as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow and The Joyce Theater. He has consulted on issues of change and technology for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, New York University and The University of Southern California, among others. A sought-after speaker, he has lectured on the relationship of dance history to emerging technologies at such institutions as Harvard University, South by Southwest Interactive, Yale, TEDx, and Stanford. He is a Public Humanities Fellow and Lecturer at Brown University, where he researches the problematics of human computer interfaces and mixed reality systems. He has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, is a founding member of the Guild of Future Architects, and is the winner of a RISCA Fellowship in Choreography from the State of Rhode Island. He received his MFA in Choreography from New York University. www.skybetter.org | |||
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